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This creative poetic work was tentatively entitled Geography & Time, because it deals
thematically with the influence of geography— through landscape, dialect, and regional
culture— on a speaker’s psychological state. The ideological divide between Eastern and
Western mythology is in some ways the main dramatic question in the work— that is,
whether or not the speaker can exist peacefully within two highly different cultural
ideologies, having been transplanted from, yet still culturally informed by, the “Eastern”
mythological realm of Hawai'i. Specifically, the “Rituals” section is a reconstruction of
Hawai’ian mythology in the form of a linguistic collage containing anthropological texts and
personal travel memoirs. The “Museums” section is a liminal space between the physical
East and West, because it deals with the speaker’s encounters with visual art, canonized
literature, and folk music. The “Ghosts” section is a reconstruction of Cajun folklore and
religious tradition focused upon the linguistic and mythological geography of Cajun
Louisiana.

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Degree

B.A.

Degree Program

English

Thesis Advisor

Gery, John

Advisory Committee

Gery, John; Hembree, Carolyn A.; Johnson, Edward R.

Date Degree Awarded

2010

Rights

The University of New Orleans and its agents retain the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible this thesis in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. The author retains all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis.

Notes

ii, 35 leaves ; 29 cm.; typescript; "An honors thesis... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Liberal Arts, with University Honors and Honors in English”; Thesis (B.A.)--University of New Orleans, 2010; May 2010; approved May 5, 2010.